Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume LXIV, Number 26, 25 June 1925 — KU I KA NANI KA AHAMELE A KO KAUAI POE. [ARTICLE]

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KU I KA NANI KA AHAMELE A KO KAUAI POE.

0 ka ahamele i malamaia e ka! papa himeni o Kauai, maloko o ka hale haiolelo, ma ka po o ka Poaono i aku la i hala, no ka pomaikai o kela papa himeni, o kekahi ahamele ia a ko Honolulu nei poe, i olelo ae ai i ke ku i ka nani ame ka maikai, ka mea i ike mau ole ia ma keia kulanakauhale, ma na ahamele o keia ano. Me ka papa himeni o Kauai, ma kela ahamele, 1 komo mai ai o Mrs. Alohikea ame na keiki hookani pila o ka bana Hawaii, pela hoi o Mw. Leilehua Hall, Miss Alohikea, Samuel Toomey, ka nokeia o na himeni apau i ka pa'ipa'i, i kau a mea o ka piha ohohia maoli o na mea apau. 0 Mrs. Sheldoj\, kekahi i ku mai e himeni pakahi, me ka nui o ka pa'ipa'iia. 0 ka mua o na himeni ma ka papa kuhikuhi, "Hawaii, ka Paredaiso o ka ka pāpa himeni holookoa o Kauai. Ka elua mai ona himeni: "Kaililauokekoa" na ko Lihue poe. "Ai a ka manu" na ko Waimea poe; "Mokihana" na ko Hanalei poe; "Uanoe o Koloa, himeni palua, ria kekahi mau lede o Koloa.

Himeni hou na ka papa himeni holookoa: "E ka Makua Alōh& Mau, a mahope o keia himeni, i me< leia ai ka himeni hookūku, i ahā'i ai ka papa himeni o Kauai i ka makana helu ekahi o hookahi haneri dala.

0 Mrs. Leilehua Hāll aku, lie himeni ku-pakahi, i ukaliia āku e Samueī Toomey, Mrs. Alohikea, me ka hui himēni o ka batia Hawaii.

Hē himēni hou na ka papa holookoa "Mele no tehova, i ukaliia aku me ka himeni hookuku, no ka Ahahui C. E., kela himēni %. āha'i hou ai ka papa hiineni o Kauai i ke ēo, ine ka makana kiāha dala, a o ka hōpē loa o ka himeni, o ia no "Kuu Lei Mokihana".

O keia himehi hope kekahi o na himeni nani loa, me kekahi poe kaikamahine liilii e haa ana ma ka manawa e meleiā ana o kela himēni, a hoolei aē la i ka lei mokihana maluna o lakou pakahi.